Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying.
John Carmack on software patents
One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
Alan J. Perlis
I (...) am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.
Douglas Adams
In computing, invariants are ephemeral.
Alan J. Perlis
Better train people and risk they leave – than do nothing and risk they stay.
Anonymous
The sooner we start coding fewer frameworks and more programs the sooner we’ll become better programmers.
Warped Java Guy Elementary Java Solutions
Programmers usually have good reasons for making bad decisions.
Anonymous
Software with no bugs is obsolete.
Anonymous
You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
Alan J. Perlis
There's no test like production.
Anonymous